1984 United States presidential election in Tennessee

The 1984 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 6, 1984. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1984 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 11 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. Tennessee was won by incumbent United States President Ronald Reagan of California, who was running against former Vice President Walter Mondale of Minnesota. Reagan ran for a second time with incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas, and Mondale ran with Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York, the first major female candidate for the vice presidency. Mondale performed better in Tennessee than any other state that was part of the Confederacy.

Reagan carried every population center in the state. He narrowly won the state's two largest counties, typically Democratic Shelby (Memphis) and Davidson (Nashville), and got over 60% of the vote in typically Republican Knox (Knoxville) and Hamilton (Chattanooga) Counties. He also got over 60% in Rutherford County (Murfreesboro), and over 2/3 of the vote in the two largest counties in the Tri-Cities region, Sullivan and Washington. In addition, Reagan performed powerfully throughout rural East Tennessee, surpassing 70% of the vote in eight counties in the region (as well as in the emerging Nashville suburb of Williamson County), and carried most of the rural counties in more typically Democratic Middle and West Tennessee as well.

The Republican presidential nominee had won Tennessee in every presidential election since 1968 except for Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter's victory in 1976.

Among white voters, 65% supported Reagan while 34% supported Mondale. Despite Reagan's victory in the election, Democratic nominee Al Gore won in the concurrent senatorial election.

• Bedford

• Cheatham

• Clay

• Coffee

• Crockett

• Davidson

• Decatur

• Dickson

• Dyer

• Fayette

• Gibson

• Giles

• Lauderdale

• Lewis

• Marion

• Marshall

• Maury

• Montgomery

• Moore

• Obion

• Polk

• Putnam

• Rutherford

• Shelby

• Sumner

• Tipton

• Weakley

• Wilson

• 1984 United States Senate election in Tennessee

• 1984 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee

• United States presidential elections in Tennessee

• Presidency of Ronald Reagan

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